Occult costs and Agriculture Industry: A study case.

With the increase of necessity to monitoring the essential resources of the enterprise environment across Agricultural Business Management, it is very important to have a general vision of processes and costs of production. In this way identification and influencing of the Occult Costs are a survival requirement, mainly for the changes of the consumers' habits and desires in the market. Thus the Brazilian Agriculture industry is responsible for about 1/3 of the Gross National Product (GNP), represent 37% of the labor force and being responsible for 42% of Brazilian exports. This activity corresponds to the most important sector of our economy. In this context, the present article has as objective to measure the Occult Costs in an Agriculture-industry, " Distillery of alcohol ", based on estimates of employees of the own organization. The results point that the occult costs represent losses to the organization. The reduction of them getting probability of investments, improving financial resources and making possible the attainment of benefits for the customers.